Citizenship, education and brazilian reality: Discussion points and aimings

Abstract

This paper discusses the appellant citizenship perspective through a critical and reflective analysis of four sections. The first analyze the historical background of citizens under the conditions and values who treated them and their understanding of reality. In the second section, Citizenship and contradictions: meanings and significance, we distinguish the structural elements of the consolidation of the term citizenship and the contradictions of its reflection. Then in "educational policy and citizenship" current citizenship is debated; and finally in the fourth section we turn to the challenges and routing of citizenship education in Brazil. The study shows that the democratic perspective improves the development of educational policies in the construction of meaning where people live and claim social space conquest humanized universalized and still remains a reality in construction.